On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> [re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC]
>
> Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in.
>
> On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>
>> I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB,
I can confirm this, based on my testing of Windows process spawning.
> So, basically, on MSYS, a:
>
> $ make TESTS="..."
>
> invocation reduces the size available for the command lines of the make
> recipes, because the value of TESTS that gets exported in the environment
> eats away space that could be used by those command lines? Oh joy ...
Yes. Unlike on *ix systems, where argv and environ are independent
entities, Windows makes you deal with both limits at the same time, so
increasing the size of environ reduces the size permitted in argv.
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